OSPF Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring OSPF skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 395 530
Rank change year-on-year -121 +135 -44
Permanent jobs citing OSPF 76 138 244
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.47% 0.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.62% 2.68% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 61 109 171
10th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £57,124 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £53,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +32.08% +9.28% -2.02%
75th Percentile £75,000 £58,750 £56,125
90th Percentile £82,500 £73,000 £67,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £53,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +36.79% +0.95% -4.55%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

OSPF falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,677 5,154 9,596
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.03% 17.47% 12.37%
Number of salaries quoted 3,161 2,668 7,137
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,087 £25,756
25th Percentile £30,500 £29,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £44,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -10.11% -1.11%
75th Percentile £60,125 £58,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £69,850
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -6.39%

OSPF
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing OSPF relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

OSPF job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

OSPF
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OSPF.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OSPF

OSPF
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing OSPF in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Salary histogram for OSPF in the UK excluding London

OSPF
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OSPF within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -30 26 £70,000 - 9
Midlands -12 21 £70,000 +100.00% 4
South East -76 21 £75,000 +41.51% 10
West Midlands -17 19 £70,000 +100.00% 3
North West +19 10 £70,000 +21.74% 5
Yorkshire -48 8 £72,788 -2.95% 2
North East - 8 £65,576 - 2
Scotland +8 4 £61,500 -8.89% 6
South West -72 4 £56,550 +0.76%
East Midlands - 2 £53,750 - 1
OSPF
UK

OSPF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 7 (9.21%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (15.79%) Azure
2 10 (13.16%) AWS
3 3 (3.95%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (2.63%) Datadog
5 1 (1.32%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 74 (97.37%) BGP
2 58 (76.32%) Firewall
3 56 (73.68%) VPN
4 45 (59.21%) WAN
5 42 (55.26%) LAN
6 29 (38.16%) EIGRP
6 29 (38.16%) Wireless
7 26 (34.21%) Cisco ASA
7 26 (34.21%) Network Security
8 19 (25.00%) SD-WAN
8 19 (25.00%) VLAN
9 16 (21.05%) MPLS
9 16 (21.05%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (18.42%) Cisco Nexus
11 13 (17.11%) TCP/IP
11 13 (17.11%) VXLAN
12 12 (15.79%) SNMP
13 11 (14.47%) NGFW
14 10 (13.16%) Ethernet VPN
15 8 (10.53%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.63%) InfluxDB
General
1 25 (32.89%) Social Skills
2 15 (19.74%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (14.47%) Law
4 8 (10.53%) Telecoms
5 5 (6.58%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.95%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.32%) Finance
8 1 (1.32%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.32%) Police
Job Titles
1 61 (80.26%) Network Engineer
2 26 (34.21%) Senior
3 25 (32.89%) Senior Network Engineer
4 8 (10.53%) Consultant
4 8 (10.53%) Network Consultant
5 5 (6.58%) Cisco Consultant
5 5 (6.58%) Cisco Network Consultant
5 5 (6.58%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 5 (6.58%) WAN Consultant
6 3 (3.95%) Architect
6 3 (3.95%) Cisco Engineer
6 3 (3.95%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 3 (3.95%) Juniper Consultant
6 3 (3.95%) Monitoring Engineer
6 3 (3.95%) Network Architect
6 3 (3.95%) Network Monitoring Engineer
7 2 (2.63%) Junior
7 2 (2.63%) Junior Network Engineer
7 2 (2.63%) Monitoring Specialist
7 2 (2.63%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.58%) gRPC
1 5 (6.58%) REST
2 4 (5.26%) 802.1X
3 2 (2.63%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.32%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 28 (36.84%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.26%) Driving Licence
3 2 (2.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (21.05%) Network Monitoring
2 13 (17.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 12 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (14.47%) Load Balancing
5 10 (13.16%) Project Delivery
6 9 (11.84%) Computer Science
6 9 (11.84%) Root Cause Analysis
7 8 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (10.53%) Network Design
7 8 (10.53%) WAN Optimisation
8 7 (9.21%) Analytical Thinking
8 7 (9.21%) Collaborative Working
8 7 (9.21%) Kalman Filter
8 7 (9.21%) Network Management
9 6 (7.89%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (7.89%) Network Segmentation
9 6 (7.89%) White-Box Testing
10 5 (6.58%) Knowledge Transfer
10 5 (6.58%) Performance Metrics
10 5 (6.58%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 26 (34.21%) Python
2 2 (2.63%) Bash
2 2 (2.63%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 51 (67.11%) Cisco Certification
2 44 (57.89%) CCNP
3 15 (19.74%) Security Cleared
4 10 (13.16%) Degree
4 10 (13.16%) DV Cleared
5 9 (11.84%) CCIE
5 9 (11.84%) CCNA
6 7 (9.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (9.21%) SC Cleared
7 4 (5.26%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.32%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.53%) SLA
2 7 (9.21%) PMO
3 1 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (9.21%) ProxySG
2 4 (5.26%) VMware NSX
3 3 (3.95%) Docker
4 2 (2.63%) Firmware
5 1 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (18.42%) Ansible
2 10 (13.16%) FortiGate
3 9 (11.84%) Terraform
4 5 (6.58%) Grafana
4 5 (6.58%) Nagios
5 4 (5.26%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.63%) Cisco Prime
6 2 (2.63%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 54 (71.05%) Cisco
2 16 (21.05%) Fortinet
3 13 (17.11%) SolarWinds
4 12 (15.79%) F5
5 11 (14.47%) Meraki
6 9 (11.84%) CheckPoint
7 8 (10.53%) Juniper
7 8 (10.53%) Palo Alto
8 7 (9.21%) Aruba
8 7 (9.21%) Blue Coat
8 7 (9.21%) Infoblox
8 7 (9.21%) Motorola
8 7 (9.21%) ServiceNow
9 6 (7.89%) Mellanox
9 6 (7.89%) NVIDIA
10 4 (5.26%) Arista
10 4 (5.26%) VMware
11 2 (2.63%) Ruckus Wireless
11 2 (2.63%) WatchGuard
12 1 (1.32%) HP